High-Rises and Chicken Farms

Here in Szolnok, city and countryside exist side by side; you step out of one, and suddenly you’re in the other. You can see a high-rise in the distance beyond the chicken farm.

I think of how we all carry our juxtapositions, how none of us is just this or just that. It’s difficult to see ourselves and others in full; we think in pieces. Only a glimpse or intuition takes us to something bigger, and even that is only a piece. How good it is that people do not come to an end, that even a passing word holds more than anyone could guess.

As of November 2017, she teaches English, American civilization, and British civilization at the Varga Katalin Gimnázium in Szolnok, Hungary. From 2011 to 2016, she helped shape and teach the philosophy program at Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science & Engineering in New York City. In 2014, her students released the inaugural issue of their philosophy journal, CONTRARIWISE, which has international participation and readership.